A weekend in London

Here i was thinking that my weekend in London would be just like all the weekends i have spent at Q's place  but little did i know that it was going to be one of the best weekends ever. Let start with the Tom Tom being stubborn and trying to take us back to a closed road... luckily Suki's GPS had more sense to reroute us around that closed road. Anyways it took us longer to get to Northwood then usual and as there was a little gathering in memory of my Grandma we were rushing to get ready. We met up with family had a good time ate chilled out caught up with each other and by the time they were all gone it was 7:30 pm. It was my little cousins birthday as well so we had a little party for her. After clearing up we chilled out debating on what we should do. after 2 hours of debating (there was cake eating and tea and chocolates at regular intervals) finally at 11 pm we decided we were going for a drive. Just us girls. we left the children at home with the boys to babysit and then at finally at 11:45pm we were on our way. We went down sightseeing in Bond Street and were thinking of making our way to Edgeware Road but due to roadworks we ended up getting lost. We went to Camden Market, passes many stations (the only ones that stick to mind are Swiss cottage station and Chalk farm station) finally yet again it was Suki's GPS to the rescue. We finally got to Edgeware road where the fun really began. we walked down the road passing the numerous restaurants and Shisha Cafe's and then finally making our way down for some Shawarma. We decided to eat at the restaurant and so here we were 5 girls having a laugh on an early Sunday morning. I think by then we were all bit hyper and made the most silliest jokes and laughed at everything. At about 2:45pm the bouncer came to kick us out. That was the most hillarious experience yet as Chiru was all set on asking the bouncer to take a Photo with her but after getting kicked out she didnt even try. This was mainly because we were still laughing like lunatics. We walked all the way to the car laughing and it wasnt until we were 5 minutes away from home that the laughing actually stopped. by the time we got home it was 3:45pm. All knackered out we flopped into our respective beds and crashed for the next 6 or so hours. Come 10:30am everyone was awake and raring to go shopping and yet again this was a girls only expedition. The harlequin our most frequent hangout was where we were headed. After making minor dents on our credit cards we made our was to Mombasa Hut for some lunch and after that it was back home. What a weekend. I can honestly say that this has to have been one of the best and exciting weekends i have had in a long time.

Emotional Me

Aaaahhhhhhh... Sigh... I sometimes really think i am so emotional its hilarious... Little things make me sad... even my cousin and sibling think i am too emotional... from getting beaten in bowling to feeling sad about a forgotten  email... Lets go to getting beaten at bowling... I think maybe its the competitive nature in me... I always loved coming first be it school or Madressa... I think i lost that edge when it came to secondary school... but its still there but then when i loose i feel sad... and that makes me more frustrated... and as for forgotten emails... whether its not getting msgs from my sisters to people who say they'll email me i feel sad when i open my email and see no emails... ok so i am chatty and thats in my nature. I get told a lot that i make friends very quickly. Put me with a group of strangers and by the time i leave i will have made friends with them. I am not a naturally shy person only in some situations... but most of the time i am confident.

After this good rant i feel better...

ps My lovely sisters i havent spoken to you guys in ages... pls come online soon... xxx

Eid Mubarak

I just wanted to wish all my friends Eid Mubarak... Have a great day... mwahs

Eid is near

As Eid approaches there is a sadness it brings. This will be the first Eid without my gran and my grand uncle. It seems like only yesterday they were around esp my gran. Even though its has been a couple of years since we spent Eid together i still remember the time we all got together at our place. That was one of the memories that haunts me now. I don't mean it in a bad way but i suddenly feel so empty. My gran was the best. like i have said before she always wanted to learn what were learning and was always ready to teach us. Its surprising that after her death i found out what a truly lovely person she was. She always tried her best to be a good mom, sister and gran. As for my grand uncle even though our opinions clashed he was still an elder of the family who always gave us advice. He was always there for us. This year i lost 2 important people in my life and although the loss is hard to bear, it has been with the support of my family and friends that i have been able to cope with this loss. Thanks guys.

Volunteering

Wow i never knew i could work in such a chaotic environment and still feel content. I guess you are probably wondering where i have been... Well i volunteered my services to the senior citizens of my community and boy are they demanding... They have no patience and and usually want whatever it is they want at that very moment but the buzz of being part of team that works like a well oiled machine just made me forget the rudeness of the elders and really enjoy what i was doing. It gave me an insight on what my mom does and i think from now i will help out whenever i can.

Back to School

OMG Its finally hit me... after 2 years of just working i am going back to studying... I mean working towards my degree... Its scary... I just looked at the materials and logged on to the website and its like a whole new thing... Just thinking about it makes me scared... where am i going to find the time to do assignments and stuff... (yeah i know some of you are saying thank God she won't spend so much time on blogger). I really am looking forward to it but I am scared too... This will be the first time me doing distance learning... Learning all these new ways of learning and working to pass... so if you dont see my post for ages or dont see me online know that i am sitting in some corner of my house studying :)

Love and Ego

"Sometimes Love is for a moment, Sometimes love is for a lifetime,

Sometimes a moment is a lifetime."

Once upon a time there was an island where all the feelings lived together.

One day there was a storm in the sea and the island was about to get drowned.

Every feeling was scared but LOVE made a boat to escape.

Every feeling boarded the boat. Only 1 feeling was left.

Love got down to see who it was...

It was EGO

Love tried and tried but Ego wasn't moving and the water was rising.

Everyone asked Love to leave him and come in the boat, but Love was made to Love.

At last all the feelings escaped and Loved died with Ego on the island.

LOVE dies because of EGO

So kill EGO and save LOVE...

gift shopping= stress

I never realized until today that i could actually hate shopping. Don't get me wrong i like shopping even if i don't buy anything i just love the window shopping. Usually when i go shopping I usually have in mind what i want and where to get it from. Usually buying any sort of gifts from birthday gifts to Eid gifts to just i am thinking of you gift doesn't stress me out so much but today i think i spent over an hour just trying to look for gifts and i came up with nothing. Nothing seems to feel right and shops these days just don't do stuff like they used. So its back to the drawing board for me. If anyone one has any suggestions please just shoot them at me cause right now my mind is pretty much blank.

Interesting

As i was listening to the lecture today one of the points he brought up was very interesting. I never considered it at that angle but today it gave me a whole new view. At the time of the Prophet's migration from Makkah to Madina the tribes in Makka had plotted to kill him. The night of his migration Ali (AS) slept in the prophets bed  risking his life to save the Prophets life. Now according to history the Tribes of Makkah had decided to share the blamefor murdering the Prophet equally and hence there was one assassin from each tribe. They formed allies with each other taking equal responsibility for the crime they were going to commit. Does this ring a bell? We have just seen History repeat itself with the war in Iraq. Countries formed allies with each other in order to take equal blame for the atrocities they were going to commit. Now some people may not agree with me and say that the war on Iraq was to stop terrorism but even now after 6 years there war is still ongoing and every year on the day of Ashura (10th Muharram) Innocent people are killed traveling to the Shrine of Hussein. It just seems so interesting to me that even with all our technological advances we still live in the past.

First day back at work...

Surprisingly I was not tired... maybe it coz My clothes hanger broke at exactly 8:25 am this morning and made a big bang that woke me up lol... but apart from that it was pretty much a quiet day. I got some paperwork done found out my training programs for the next year looks like its going to be a very bz year with me flitting from one place to another... Other than that it was a quiet day. i think the most exciting part of my day was looking at the new resources we got ... ( yeah i am excited about those i can unpack them tomorrow and get first bids on what i can play with :D... lol ) I hope 2moro is a bit more exciting...

Back to work

The long and beautiful summer has now come to an end. 7 weeks of rest, relaxing and just plain chilling is now over. Alas its back to work for moi from tomorrow. Although I am looking forward to it i feel sad that i will now not be able to sleep in or stay up late... but then again it going to be fun going back to work... Hopefully i wont be falling asleep ;). So what have i done in these 7 weeks lets recap...

The holidays first started with my friends wedding which i have to say was beautiful. I have never enjoyed myself this much.  Then we had the various trips with family to Kettering and London and Essex. Now those were the times i really had fun from sitting on death defying rides ( yeah i mean that horrible pirate ship in wickstead park) to just chilling at home in Essex. These memories will forever stay with me. and then how can i forget my late night conversations with my sisters... Its funny how i haven't watch anything this summer. I had plans but i guess they were changed... anyways after all this i think its time i actually went and did something useful. So its back to work for me... until next years summer....

Fairy cakes....

I  love baking and sometimes just baking the most easiest and most simple things gives you you so much pleasure for example fairy cakes... they are just so easy to make and so brilliant and you can decorate them however you want... with glaze icing, chocolate fudge and also put sprinkles... anyways i was making fairy cakes today and after baking waiting for them to cool and then icing them and putting stars and choc chips on them i was so pleased... like i was a kid again and i had achieved something... I didn't think making such small cakes would make me smile so much... i think they are better then baking big cakes... so from now on everyone is getting a fairy cake for their birthday with one candle on it... beware... :D

The champion is back

Yay i made pro in wii bowling and today i have to say that i got nearly 6 strikes in a row... with a personal best of 219 who can complain... i know there are people out there who probably have better scores then me but i am proud at what i have achieved. Another thing that brightened up my day was the girls in our house rule we all won our tennis matched while the men lost theirs... hahahaha... girl power 4eva...

Being single

Ok so here i am one of the few from my friends circle who is still single and HAPPY. Now u wonder why i write happy in caps... its just to point out that i am happy. Anyways my post today is to all of them out there (except you sars since u don't nag me) that if getting engaged or married or both makes u a match maker then I'd rather be single. Why is it that everyone who finds their life partner start stressing about their single friends... I mean even family gosh one gets engaged so that means the rest do to. Come on tell me, those of you who are now engaged and married, how hard was it to find your ideal match? I bet u went through so much stress unless you are one of the lucky few who married you high school sweetheart. Its not easy in a world where divorce rates are shooting up, where fidelity is sold for a bit of pleasure in the side. yeah i know i seem to be holding out for the stars but surly a girl or guy can be picky. I mean this is someone you are going to spend the rest of your life with. You will have children with them, grow old with them, weather storms, celebrate the good times and grieve during sorrowful times. This is the person who will nurse you when you are ill and vice versa. So tell me why is it so hard for those who have already found their partners to understand how hard it is for us singletons? Dint get me wrong i do want to find the right person its just taking me longer then most so all you people out there who have been badgering me to get married i will when i find the ideal guy and not before that. :)

Miracle

A sand storm that went through Saudi Arabia and southern Iraq but stopped when it reached the Holy city of Najaf.  It stood still just like a mountain. 

When i first watched this video i was truly amazed at the miracles Allah (SWT) shows us. How does a Sand storm come to a halt? This is truly and only by the power of the Almighty. Subahanallah.